We all have things we want changed in Civil 3D. If you live and work in Civil 3D Land, you probably have more than a few Civil 3D Wish List items. I do. You do too. Some of those whines and moans are related to things Civil 3D cannot do yet. Others to the stuff Civil 3D cannot do very well from our perspective.
How we choose to work habitually matters significantly…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 11, 2020
Tags Civil 3D, Groundforce, alignment, offset alignment, profile, offset profile, superelevation, feature line, optionality, optimization, surface, grading
Maybe you noticed that Autodesk puts some effort into improving Corridor design publication performance in the latest Civil 3D 2019.1 Update. The new enhancement capability to share Sample Line Groups as Data Shortcuts in projects comes to mind.
We can probably also agree that Civil 3D plan annotation of corridor models still needs serious work. Then again, sometimes we…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 23, 2018
Tags corridors, point group, Toolbox Reports, spreadsheet, alignment, offset alignment, video, iPOD
Inside Civil 3D Autodesk uses the common names and terms for civil engineering and survey stuff. However, Civil 3D Features (collected programming objects that work together) can and do behave quite differently from old school CAD objects. We all stumble over this Civil 3D reality a bit.
Last time we talked about Civil 3D’s outwardly convoluted mechanics of Point…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 05, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, alignment, offset alignment, offset profile, superelevation, video
At present we all probably have Parcels on our mind to one degree or another. It is Christmas time after all. I admit that you’re probably not considering the Civil 3D kind of Parcels favored in subdivision work. Those may make you grimace. Mind you. I’m no Grinch.
My point is that there are many ways in AutoCAD Civil 3D to deliver the Parcel goods whether you be a design civil engineering…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 14, 2017
Tags parcel, parcel segment, alignment, offset alignment, landxml, Label Style, video, ESRI, SHP
A recent Framework for Civil 3D customer posed a fascinating question this week.
“You’re the Civil 3D wizard.
What are a couple of things that Civil 3D does that people completely miss?”Perhaps flattery works.
A Sweaty Summer School for Civil 3D
Here’s a written summary of my more than you ever wanted to know answer…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 08, 2017
Tags alignment, offset alignment, intersection, Survey, survey db, point group, video